IT wasn’t long ago one of your regular columnists mentioned Adam Hastings nicking a few yards to make a kick easier. No quarrel there, they’re all at it. Marcus Smith, who should get enormous credit for taking so little time over his kicks, has also done it, both forwards and sideways. It’s not a tricky thing for referees to clamp down on, is it?
Last week I watched Gloucester deservedly lose to Wasps, but, Matthew Carley, now an international referee, failed to control both Wasps hookers, who continually threw in to lineouts with their feet on the pitch, their hee...